Another World II 《彼岸II》

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Another World II， also known as Other World II， is a woodcut print （31.8 cm × 26.1 cm） by the Dutch artist M. C. Escher first printed in January 1947.

It depicts a cubic architectural structure made from brick. The structure is a paradox with an open archway on each of the five visible sides of the cube. The structure wraps around the vertical axis to enclose the viewer’s perspective. At the bottom of the image is an archway which we seem to be looking up from the base， and through it we can see space. At the top of that arch is another arch which is level with our perspective， and through it we are looking out over a lunar horizon. At the top of that arch is another arch which covers the top of the image. We are looking down at this arch from above and through it onto the lunar surface.

Standing in each archway along the vertical axis is a metal sculpture of a bird with a humanoid face. In each side archway is a horn or cornucopia hanging on chains. The views from above and below are consistent， placing the statue so that it faces the horn， however the horizontal view reverses the relative positions of the statue and the horn， and rotates the horn 180 degrees.

The previous month （December 1946）， Escher created a mezzotint called Another World （Gallery）. The image in that print is the same as this one except that the arches continue on as an infinite corridor.

The bird/ human sculpture is a real sculpture which was given to Escher by his father-in-law. This sculpture first appears in Escher’s 1934 lithograph Still Life with Spherical Mirror.

The picture is featured in the cover of the 1965 edition of Italo Calvino1’s Cosmicomics.

《彼岸II》（又譯《異度空間II》《另一個世界II》）是荷蘭畫家M.C.埃舍爾創作的一幅木刻版畫（31.8厘米×26.1厘米），首印于1947年1月。

該畫描繪了一個磚砌的立方結構體。這個立方體有五個可見面，每一面都有敞開的拱門，構成了一個矛盾體。該結構體圍繞垂直軸而建，給觀者提供了閉合的視角。畫面底部的拱門看似從底部望向頂部，透過拱門可看到外空。該拱門的頂部是另一個拱門，與觀者視角持平，透過它眺望到的是月球地平線。該拱門的頂部又是另一個拱門，鋪滿了畫面頂部，觀者的視角是由上而下，穿過它可到達月球表面。

沿垂直軸分布的每個拱道上都立著一尊人面鳥身的金屬雕像。側邊拱道上都垂有一個掛在鏈子上的號角或豐饒角。無論從上向下還是從下向上，視圖都是連貫的，雕像面沖號角擺放，但是水平視圖顛倒了雕像和角的相對位置，并將角旋轉了180度。

印制此畫的前一個月（1946年12月），埃舍爾創作過一幅名為《彼岸》（又名《畫廊》）的網線銅版畫。兩幅畫的畫面基本一樣，只是那幅畫中的拱門一直向深處延伸，形成一條沒有盡頭的走廊。

人面鳥身的雕像確有其物，是埃舍爾的岳父送給他的禮物。在埃舍爾1934年的平版印刷畫《靜物與球面鏡》中，這座雕像首次露面。

伊塔洛·卡爾維諾1965年版的《宇宙奇趣》一書將此畫用作了封面。